DJ/RUPTURE
After hiding away in his Barcelona studio recording with his live band Nettle, Rupture has a storming bootleg mix CD coming up called Low Income Tomorrowland. [30 min. full audio, 90 min of mix as MP3s from a live radio session]. Email ned@littlebig.org.uk for UK & Europe bookings through mid Oct onwards.
DJ/RUPTURE released his debut album in late 2004 ::
Special Gunpowder - Tigerbeat6 2004
After countless compilation appearances, remixes, and numerous DJ
mix CDs, it's startling to consider that DJ /RUPTURE has arrived at his
debut album only now. An envious musical run has seen Rupture taken in
by raggamuffins, punk technoids, indy hipsters, junglists, peers, and
austere critics alike.
To many he is the new face of urban music - the potent sound of genre bending and overcrowded city life, a post-cultural broken mirror that mashes hiphop, techno, reggae, afro-cuban, spoken word, bohemian rhapsodies, folk music, the chanteuse, breakbeats, avant-garde noise, and jazz through the strainer of a DJ?s mentality and emerges with one of the most concentrated and exhilarating debuts this year.
SPECIAL GUNPOWDER refuses to be anything less than a declaration
of musical independence, an intimate and complex work where pop
sensibility leaves the comfort zone to explore new directions. In short,
RUPTURE has traveled a world of sound to create one of the most soulful
albums by an electronic producer in years.
*A little known fact: before he left NYC for Spain, Rupture played in a
band with 8-time Grammy winner Norah Jones*
With guest appearances by Ghislain Poirier and Kit Clayton, vocals by
Sister Nancy, Max Turner (Puppetmastaz), Arnaud Michniak (of French cult
experimental rock band Programme), ragga heavyweights Junior Cat, Wayne Lonesome, and Wicked Act, Eugene Robinson (of Bay Area avant-metal group Oxbow), and poet Elizabeth Alexander, RUPTURE has brought together the connections only he could have foreseen and woven them onto an aural tapestry that can be listened to over and over again, ad infinitum.
SPECIAL GUNPOWDER is major statement from one of the most
forward-looking producers and DJs around.
This highly anticipated debut album followed on from the success of his mix CDs for Tigerbeat6 and Violent Turd, and well-received singles and remixes. Minesweeper Suite, Rupture?s previous Tigerbeat6 release, was a smash
hit, named among the 10 Best Albums of 2002 by The Wire, a Hot Pick in Rolling Stone, "A-" review in Entertainment Weekly, etc.
* 12 guest vocalists in a variety of styles, including reggae legend
Sister Nancy
*Guest musicians include Kit Clayton (Orthlorng Musork), Ghislain
Poirier (Chocolate Industries)
* Rupture has performed in over 20 countries, sharing bills with El-P,
Godspeed You Black Emperor, Roni Size, Kid606, The Bug, etc.